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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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I’m aiming by the time I’m fifty to stop being an adolescent (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
If a horse has four legs, and I’m riding it, I think I can win (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Time... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Corruption is like a ball of snow, when once set a rolling it must increase (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but should prefer reason for a wife (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is true that friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship never (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Ladies of fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out? (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)